Impact of residential prairie gardens on the physical properties of urban soil in Madison, Wisconsin

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 45-52

  Johnston, Marie R ^a   Balster, Nick J ^a   Zhu, Jun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOUSING; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; SOILS; VEGETATION;

CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; PENETRATION RESISTANCES; RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITIES; SAMPLING INTERVAL; SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; SOIL BULK DENSITY; SOIL ORGANIC MATTERS; VEGETATION TYPE;

SOIL TESTING;

SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

ARTICLE; BULK DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; NONHUMAN; POA PRATENSIS; PRAIRIE; RESIDENTIAL AREA; SOIL PROPERTY; SURFACE SOIL; TURFGRASS; UNITED STATES; VEGETATION; CHEMISTRY; CITY; GRASSLAND; LAND USE; SOIL; WISCONSIN;

CITIES; GARDENS; GRASSLAND; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; SOIL; WISCONSIN;

EID: 84957540486     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: 15372537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2015.02.0093     Document Type: Article

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